Bottle for containing sauce, condiments, &amp;c.



PATENTED APR. 28, 1903.

L. A. CALHOUN. BOTTLE FOR QONTAINING SAUCE, GONDIMENTS, &0.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21. 1902.

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LAURA A. CALHOUN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE FOR CONTAINING SAUCE, CONDIMIENTS, 86C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,402, dated April 28, 1903.

Application filed Augnst'Zl, 1902. Serial No. 120,509. (No model.)

To ttZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA A. CALHOUN, of the city of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles for Containing Sauce, Condiments, or other Liquids, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description or specification, reference being had to the annexed sheet of drawings and to the letters marked thereon.

This invention relates to a bottle which is especially designed and adapted for use as a container of such liquids as are usually purchased in small quantities at a time for per sonal or private use, and which bottle is not intended for use in any other manner than for containing the liquid which is in it when purchasedsuch, for example, as a sauce or condiment, bitters, medicinal or proprietary preparations which the person purchasing the bottle and its contents employs for personal use.

The bottle constituting this invention is not adapted for wholesale or large purchases, excepting when the bottles and their contents are purchased for the purpose of being sold in single or a very few bottles at a time and which are not opened before being resold.

My invention consists of a bottle which is constructed with a duplex head at the upper or outer end of the bottles neck. When the bottle is filled by pouring into it (through the inner head) the liquid which it is intended to contain and is then corked or stopped, then a cap of glass, earthenware, or other suitable material is screwed into a screw-thread within the outer head of the bottle, the screwed portions of the outer head and cap being coarse threads and the form of the uniting parts tapered. By reason of the coarseness and form of the screw threads suflicient space is left between the cap and the outer head of the bottle to admit of cement of any suitable kind being pressed into the places between the screw-threads, which become sufficiently compressed to completely fill the spaces between the screw-threads solidly as the cap is tightened into the outer head of the neck of the bottle, and when this cement is set the bottle and its cap are firmly and securely fastened together. The outer neck of the bottle is constructed near its upper end at Fig. 1.

with an indentation all around its exterior. This renders the material of the outer head of the bottle at this part thin and easily frangible, so that when it is desired to open the bottle so constructed and reach its contents the cap and upper portion of the outer head are broken through at this thin part, thereby exposing the cork or stopper, so that the same can be withdrawn by an ordinary cork-screw or other appliance adapted for this purpose. The inner head of the bottle is preferably constructed with an indentation for the purpose of receiving a ring of wire or cord or tape, which enables a binding wire or cord or tape to be tied over the cork or stopper, thereby securing the cork or stopper in the inner head of the bottle until the cap is unscrewed for opening the bottle and pouring out its contents.

Upon the annexed sheet of drawings, Fig ure 1 is a vertical section of the bottle constructed according to my present invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation correspondingto Fig. 1.

In both of the figures the body of the bottle is marked A and its neck B. At the upper part of the neck there are the two heads namely, the inner head C and the outer head D, respectively, and more especially shown The inner head of the neck of the bottle C is shown in Fig. 1 with a groove E formed around it. This is the groove for receiving a wire, cord, or tape, (not shown in the drawings, but which being well understood is tied into the groove E and then passed over and tied down upon the upper end of the cork or stopper F.) The outer head of the neck of the bottle is marked D, and this is formed with a coarse screw-thread in its interior, as shown at H H, Fig. 1. The hollow inverted cap I is formed as shown and has its lower part constructed with a screwed portion more or less approximately the counterpart of the tapered screwthreaded portion H of the neck of the bottle. The cement filling the space in or between the two threads H in the neck of the bottle and the counterpart thread in the lower part of the cap I is shown as filled with cement of any suitable kind. (Indicated. by the thick black screw-cut lines shown at these parts in Fig. 1.) The upper end of the outer part of the neck of the bottle has formed in it the circular indentation J, which renders the glass of the bottle thin at this part, and therefore the cap I of the bottle and'the portion of the outer head D are easily broken 06 by a slight blow on the cap I, thus rendering the cork or stopper in the inner head F exposed and capable of being removed in any well-known manner.

It will be understood from the preceding part of this specification and the annexed drawings that when the cap I of the bottle has been once broken off and removed in the manner hereinbefore described it cannot then be replaced on the bottle and that when the bottle is emptied of its contents it cannot be filled again with any other liquid and sold as an unbroken package with the view of practicing fraud or for selling spurious liquids in imitation of genuine liquids.

Having now described the nature of my said invention and the best system, mode, or manner I am at present acquainted with for carrying thesame into practical effect, I desire to observe, in conclusion, that what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim as the invention to be secured to me by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The bottle whose neck is providedwith an inner and an outer head, the inner head of which is for receiving a cork or equivalent manner and for the purposes substantially as hereinbefore described.-

7 2. The combination consisting of the bottle, the neck, the inner head of the neck, the cork or stopper, the outer head of the neck, the inverted cap, the screw-threads in the outer neck and on the inverted cap, the cement, all operating in the manner andfor the purposes substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 25th day of January, A. D. 1902, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LAURA A. CALHOUN. 

